The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-17


shot. please state what kind of
game there is, and the brooks sup
pose are full of trout I, suppose
they mite be in good demand in the
Markets in the Season. hoping you
will give me your opinion to the
best of your knowledge what my
chances would be. in. a. place. like.
Ashe- hoping to hear from you
I. Remain Yours Truley
The above letter is a sample only
of profuse, one-sided correspon-
dence that has sprung up on the
heels of brief article relating to
the climate of Asheville, N. c.,
which appeared early in the winter
over my signature in the World.
Had l dreamed that the article re-
ferred to would bring such
torrent of fractured English and
such a simeon OF interrogatlsns
points l would have restrained
myself.
All can do, therefore, is to re-
tract and apologize. l want to be
placed once more where l was be-
fore I began to get letters inquiring
about the climate. / am the victim
of too much notoriety. People
write to me from all quarters of
the union to ask things of which /
am grossly ignorant have been
compelled, as result of that incau-
tious letter in the World, TO take
off two of my autograph men and
put them on the climate correspon-
dence. SO now state through the
same columns where the original
letter appe cared that l apologize.
To the correspondent who
writes the above letter let NE say:
Core to North Carolina and you
will never regret it. 1t is land
flowing with milk, honey and tar. 1t
Is full of health, climate and smok-
ing tobacco. 1t will do you good
to come here to live till you actual
ly get tired of it.
1t is so. extremely conductive to
health here that people grow to
an enormous height. Even the
preachers grow to be over six feet
high here. A clergyman called on
me the other day, and asked me to
address the Sabbath school, who is
feet Il inches high. He is man
who could ask blessing in hum
BILE way if he had time, or if he
happened to be in a hurry he could
reach over and help himself.
I am 6 feet high myself and
moderately active for one of my age
but I would no more rise in that
mans congregation and make the
remark "gosh," than l would select
perdition as a good sight for a fire
cracker factory.
Relative to the chances for a
poor man, in this country where
l now remain, that being my prin-
cipal business, l will say in a cur
sorry way that poverty is not re
garded as a violation of the statutes
here in North Carolina. People
have lived here for years in the
most abject poverty right under the
7 nose of the grand jury. So you need
not stay away on that account.
Moreover, the poor people of the
North Carolina mountains are a
thousand fold more contented tina n
the poor people of the north. If a
man must be poor all his life what
can be more use to him than
.. contentment? That is the great
difference between northern and
southern poverty. What does q
tar-heel mountaineer care about
strikes2 What does he care be-
cause other people are wearing un-
derclothing? He don't care cent.
He bitches up his little two-year-
old speckled heifer to democratic
wagon, hauls 40 cents worth OF
wood to town, and goes home con-
= tended. Verify the south is where
contentment Is at.
= l feel safe in saying that you
would do we'll here. You would be
; welcomed as soon as you landed
here and you would find the best
climate you ever threw your lip
over.
You could work here all day
through the winter and play lawn
tennis in your shirt sleeves by moon
light, or chase the festive coon from
precipice to precIpice.
1 am glad to read that you are a
good wing shot. 1t will give you
standing in society which might
otherwise take you years to secure.
North Carolina needs more good
wing shots. She has already a
sturdy, thrifty, whole souled enter
prising class of business men, but
she is little short on the wing
sbots.
So come any time. / will be at
the depot when you arrive. Would
it annoy you if l were to bring the
band down to the depot with me2
We have a very fair all-around
band here, composed of self made
colored men who play in chaste
and uncons,rained way that will
net Brighten you much if you are
used to loud snorts of melancholy.
The memb ers of this band have now
perfected themselves to such an ex,
tent that they play right ..along
juot as fuenily without their leader
and while he ponds his horn to
pour out the juice they take up the
air and carry it along in such a
way that you could not miss the
leader, and they embellish all their
music and improvise so much that
you could not tell what tune they
were playing. Still, will do just
as you say about having the band
Idoup of tho danot when Won come